Autumn-Season 2008 begins

[steve owen]

Maggi, You look too young to remember Biggles.

[Maggi Young]

Maggi, You look too young to remember Biggles.

You silver tongued devil, Steve..... I foresee a wonderful friendship here!! 

Nicholson, Darby, Booker, Tyerman et al... if any of you make a comment about Biggles needing new specs.......my fury will know no bounds!!

[David Nicholson]

Maggi, You look too young to remember Biggles.

Steve, you really don't need to crawl-just send her chocolate (in copius amounts) 

[Maggi Young]

Watch it , David!     Not, Steve, that that isn't good enough advice 

By the way, David, IS THAT YOU, or have you pinched the photo of some younger chap? 

[David Nicholson]

It's Lesley's fault. She said the picture I had taken with Ian, at his Exeter talk, made me look ten years younger than I looked in my old avatar. So, being very vane....................................

[Maggi Young]

Well, just because it makes you look younger, that's no excuse for sitting on  a bit of wrought iron on a steeple top..... "vane".... get it?  Actually, Ian and I agreed with Lesley.. that photo does make you look younger than the old avatar and Ian expected you would be older  than you turned out to be in real life..... now, send chocolate, please !!


I've been having a look today at a few spots in the garden where the earliest snowdrop spikes appear....no sign  of any at all at present.... mind you, they are usually much later here than everywhere else, most years....but the weather has been so changeable that I thought I'd check to see if any snowies were confused.... it seems I have only sensible snowdrops!

[mark smyth]

I too think David looks much younger now.

Maggi are there no autumn snowdrops in Ian's collection?

[David Nicholson]

If you look closely it looks as though I have a piece of wrought iron sticking out of the top of my head!

[Maggi Young]

Mark, you know as well as I do that Ian absolutely denies having ANY sort of snowdrop collection.
We have a couple of puny G. regina olgae and a G. peshmenii... that's about it.

[ranunculus]

If you look closely it looks as though I have a piece of wrought iron sticking out of the top of my head!

I just assumed you were HD ready, David?   

(Apologies to non-Brits for this U.K. based ... 'joke')! 

[Lvandelft]

If you look closely it looks as though I have a piece of wrought iron sticking out of the top of my head!

I just assumed you were HD ready, David?   

(Apologies to non-Brits for this U.K. based ... 'joke')! 

Got it! 

A man said to his friend: "I've just bought a 32-inch HD ready TV for £50.
His friend asked "What's wrong with it?''
"Nothing, except the volume control is stuck on very loud."
"You still bought it even with that fault?''
"It was such a bargain I couldn't turn it down."

[mark smyth]

excellent!

[David Nicholson]

If you look closely it looks as though I have a piece of wrought iron sticking out of the top of my head!

I just assumed you were HD ready, David?   

(Apologies to non-Brits for this U.K. based ... 'joke')! 

That's aerialy good one Cliff!

[David Nicholson]

Luit, that's a very 'Brit' sounding joke-just shows there are no borders in humour.

[Tony Willis]

Probably a bit late with this but I have been walking in the snowy north.

I grow all my galanthus in clay pots  but I have my arum collection in pond baskets plunged in sand. This is to keep them isolated as lots of them produce masses of tiny offsets which would soon create chaos if they got loose. Arums produce thick fleshy roots and these have no problem in getting through the mesh into the sand. I just water and feed the sand. A picture to illustrate.